{"646026":{"#nid":"646026","#data":{"type":"news","title":"International TAs Forge New Connections ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is pleased to announce a new leadership initiative:\u0026nbsp;International TA Liaisons for CTL. This pilot program offers experienced international graduate teaching assistants (ITAs) a significant leadership role in their colleges and the opportunity to create a support network among their peers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Creating this new partnership with international TAs is an extension of the hub-and-spoke model that CTL created with the Provost Teaching and\u0026nbsp;Learning Fellows and the Graduate Teaching Fellows,\u0026rdquo; said Joyce Weinsheimer, director of CTL. \u0026ldquo;We hope this initiative will strengthen the voices of ITAs in our campus conversations, and give greater visibility to the diversity and contributions they bring to our campus. I\u0026#39;m excited about this new connection between CTL, the ITAs, and the colleges.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe spring 2021 cohort of ITA Liaisons represents five colleges (the colleges of design, computing, engineering, liberal arts, sciences), seven schools, and a variety of national cultures. In addition, each ITA Liaison has completed \u0026ldquo;CETL 8802: Special Topics in ITA Development\u0026rdquo; and has already successfully served as a TA in their\u0026nbsp;respective school. Sarah Kegley, ITA program manager for CTL, is facilitating the pilot program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with collaborating with the rest the cohort, ITA Liaisons will engage as leaders in their own schools. How? By designing a framework developed from individual experience, each member of the cohort is working on something significant to them and addressing a need they choose to\u0026nbsp;highlight. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026#39;re\u0026nbsp;excited to work together in this initiative; we can support each other and incoming ITAs in distinctive ways that may not occur to others,\u0026rdquo; said Ximena Pizarro, one of the program participants and a Public Policy Ph.D. student. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMohammad Nikbakht, another participant and\u0026nbsp;an Electrochemical Engineering Ph.D. student, feels similarly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If I\u0026#39;d known then what I know now! I think we can help incoming ITAs with this experience,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Nikbakht added.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to\u0026nbsp;Nikbakht and Pizarro, the following students were selected for the program:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EArpit Bhardwaj, Civil and Environmental Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERui Chen, Mechanical Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFan Jiang, Robotics Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Robotics Ph.D.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJung Hyun Lee, School of Building Construction\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDaniyar Omarov, School of Mathematics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe new International TA Liaisons program offers experienced international graduate teaching assistants a significant leadership role in their colleges and the opportunity to create a support network among their peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The new International TA Liaisons program offers experienced international graduate teaching assistants a significant leadership role in their colleges and the opportunity to create a support network among their peers."}],"uid":"35631","created_gmt":"2021-04-01 20:29:27","changed_gmt":"2021-04-05 16:29:55","author":"eryan32","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646027":{"id":"646027","type":"image","title":"2021 ITA Liaisons","body":null,"created":"1617309073","gmt_created":"2021-04-01 20:31:13","changed":"1617309073","gmt_changed":"2021-04-01 20:31:13","alt":"","file":{"fid":"245262","name":"Screen Shot 2021-04-01 at 4.30.49 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-01%20at%204.30.49%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-01%20at%204.30.49%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":746981,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-01%20at%204.30.49%20PM.png?itok=gLXW5-3R"}}},"media_ids":["646027"],"groups":[{"id":"1268","name":"Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)"},{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:skegley3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESarah Kegley\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECenter for Teaching and Learning\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}